Since it’s Christmas today, I have a little gift for all pimatic users that already own an Amazon echo.

I’ve just finished a new plugin called pimatic-echo. When activating the plugin, you can ask Alexa to scan your network for new devices and she will find all supported devices automatically. After that you can ask her to switch these devices on or off. Currently this is the only thing you can do. I’m planning to extend this to dimming lights later on. Alexa herself also just supports switching, dimming and controlling thermostats. But i guess there is more to come.

The supported devices include the following device classes:

DummySwitch

DummyDimmer

ButtonsDevice (just the first defined button)

All devices extending from ShutterController (Shutters will go up when switched on and vice versa)

wooow, thank you @michbeck100 for the present. its one of the greatest gift i got… :D
Thanks for your Work.
As a small thanks you will soon get a small donation and I’m already looking forward to your updates…

edit: done. And now use the Christmas time to spend it with your family, not Programming

aaahm… however, for next year i have a few suggestions:

control thermostat temperature

color control of led lights

rename device, so in some cases i would call a function with echo bye another name as the devicename

@passie if you want to try with echoism.io this won’t work, because this works only in the local network. But this is a feature not a bug, because pimatic must not be accessible from the internet this way.

Hi,
great job! But currently I cannot use it as I have no control which devices are provided to echo. As I have alarm and security devices also I definitifly dont want a guy beein able to tell echo “alexa open door and alarm off”

@passie if you want to try with echoism.io this won’t work, because this works only in the local network. But this is a feature not a bug, because pimatic must not be accessible from the internet this way.

very very nice! thx for your work
just played around a bit and I like it !

@n3ro you first have to scan the network. in german it should be "alexa suche neue netzwerk geräte"
i tried several things until i got to that command
alexa will search and find all provided devices from the plugin.